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Another Real Estate Find

As long as I’ve got house-hunting on the brain, how ’bout another story about US$200K+ property rife with drug activity?

An appraiser somewhere in the southwestern US posted some photos of a

house located in “an area undergoing intense renovation right now”. Three of the photos are shown below, and you can click here to see the full set.

 

The leaning toilet of Pisa! Perfect for those hung-over mornings wehn you need to rest your head against the wall. Click the photo to see the full set.

Fully-equipped laundry room. Bonus: if you’re too short time to do a wash, you can always simply hose your clothes down. Click the photo to see the full set.

The living room — best-kept room in the house.

It’s quite telling that the most pristine object in the place is the TV

set. The doilie is a nice touch too — the appraiser reports that the

owner uses it for his bong. Click the photo to see the full set.

The

appraiser says:

The current owner’s “ol’ lady” left him last year and he’s been on an

eleven month drug binge because she won’t let him see his daughter

anymore. He was a very nice guy, he even offered me a hit of meth or

pot or “whatever else I can find around here.” I declined, but he

continued on saying he would be getting about $30k out of the sale of

his house, and the only thing he could think to do with it is to buy

more drugs.

The

appraiser reports that the appraisal value is expected to be around

US$105K and that after renovation, the place should sell for about

US$245K.

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RIP Pope John Paul II

…and in tribute, my favourite photo of the Pontiff (yes, it’s real):

Vaya con Dios.

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It Happened to Me

I Hope It’s Made with Free-Range Organic Pandas…

Seen at “Super 88 Grocery” the last time I was in Boston…

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Free Icons!

In addition to writing a Blogware article, I’ve also made some royalty-free icons called “Dread Pirate Roberts”, just for kicks. Feel free to grab ’em from the Blogware blog.

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More Blogware Mechanic Goodness…

Favicons are custom icons associated with

a website. In this installment of The Blogware Mechanic, we’ll look at

how to make a favicon for your blog and in the process get a better

look at Blogware’s filesystem.

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It Happened to Me

I am Rutger Hauer

While looking through my photos last night, I found this one of me from July 2000, during those heady dot-com days:

Photo: Joey deVilla, during the blonde-haired years, drinking bar shots out of a test tube. Taken July 2000.
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Investors’ money on fire

off the shoulder of El Camino Real. I watched C code crash in the dark near

the Golden Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears

in rain…”

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The Blogware Mechanic

It’s not all beer and posting songs about butts on this blog — sometimes, I promote some of my work-related activities!


For those of you with Blogware-powered

blogs (there are lots of ’em, and they’re not necessarily sold under

the name “Blogware”), you might want to check out a new series of

articles I’m writing for the Blogware blog called The Blogware Mechanic.

The Blogware Mechanic

is a regularly-appearing series of articles that will show you how to

go beyond the standard features included in your Blogware-based blog,

customize it in ways you may not have thought possible and make your

blog uniquely yours.

(You didn’t think that all the accordion-related imagery on this

blog came standard, did you? I tried to sneak ’em in, but they didn’t

let me. They’ll pay for that. Ohhhhh, how they’ll pay…)

In the first installment of Blogware Mechanic, I cover the fine art of customizing the “permalink icon” that appears beside the titles of articles from the plain ol’ vanilla “page with the upper-right-hand corner turned over” icon…

…to a nice, snazzy custom icon:

…and along the way, I provide a quick overview of Blogware’s filesystem and templates.

If you’ve got a Blogware blog and are looking to spruce it up, check out the article!